Talking to the Neighbours: Conversations in a Country Parish

by Mary Newcomb (Illustrator), Ronald Blythe (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  2002

  $10.95

  These seasonal reflections weave together literature, poetry, biography, botany, nature and scripture to offer incisive comment on contemporary life. Rooted in the locality where Ronald Blythe lives and works, here is a world that we all recognize immediately as being in the places where we ourselves live. They resonate richly with the pattern of the natural and the liturgical year, and provide a profound and elegant commentary on the way that we experience the sacred through the everyday. Many began as addresses given in local churches by Ronald Blythe in his capacity as Reader in the Church of England.

• New

  Paperback
  2003

  $18.47

  Ronald Blythe invites us into the company of his neighbours and friends to hear his reflections on the natural and local history, the liturgy, stories, village events and gossip that shape and unite their lives. Though intimately local, his voice is that of a poet, transcending boundaries of place and time with a universal appeal. 'Man of letters, man of faith, Suffolk man: Ronald Blythe is all of these.' Tiimes Literary Supplement